Show found long lost orchid once one of the rarest orchids in the ahe world the or venus 4 foot known to gardeners as ladys slipper dwindled in numbers to such euch an extent that at one time there was only one specimen known to ita be in existence in the western hemisphere no one know knew where I 1 the original collector had stumbled across the rarity and a london firm offered 1000 pounds for a specimen of the lost orchid after a lapse of years a civil engineer working in nepal came across the long sought bloom growing profusely in the tropical jungle he sent a number of plants to england where they grew and flourished |